Karl Dall is dead, no longer recovering from a stroke

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reComedian and actor Karl Dall died Monday at the age of 79. His family said he has not recovered from a stroke he suffered 12 days ago.

Dall has not recovered from a stroke he suffered twelve days ago. Despite the use of all intensive technological and medical measures, today he fell asleep peacefully, without having regained consciousness beforehand. He leaves behind his wife, daughter and granddaughter, ”says the family’s letter. “He was not only a popular comedian and entertainer, but most of all, an exceptionally lovable and personable person.”

Dall had taken on the role of old rock star Richie Sky on the ARD daily series “Rote Rosen” since early November. In Lüneburg, where the soap opera is being filmed, on November 11 he suffered a stroke with a brain hemorrhage.

“I didn’t think it was funny, but everyone laughed at me.”

After his colleague Otto Waalkes, as if he had been born in Emden, the most famous East Frisian comedian celebrated success on stage and on television. It didn’t seem like a race like this for a long time. The parents wanted to make him an official; the teacher’s son saw himself as a photographer or cameraman. After fucking out of school, he dropped out of school in 10th grade, personal and parenting dreams exploded. For this he was known as a class clown: “I didn’t think it was funny, but everyone was laughing at me,” he said later.

He, who was teased as a child for his weak eyelid muscles, did the best he could and became a professional comedian. Dall began his career in 1967 with the group Insterburg & Co (“I loved a girl”), which quickly became a top insider on the student scene. Before the stupid group broke up in the late 1970s, Dall had made connections with television. He brought the “music store” to the screen, helped with Rudi Carrell’s “Milkshake,” and played pranks on the phone in “Got the fun?”

He later moderated television talk shows as a silly bard and joke, hit the charts with hits like “This Record Is A Hit” and “Millions of Women Love Me” and was an actor in mostly minor roles opposite. to the camera.

In 1992, her spectacular move to Sat.1 (“Jux und Dallerei”) made television history, until then the most prominent personality in the competition between the two private networks. “I earned my spurs on RTL, the mice on Sat.1,” he later summarized. But in 1995 Dall returned to RTL, moderating, for example, “Karls Kneipe” and taking part in Rudi Carrell’s show “7 days – 7 heads”. He was later seen rarely on screen, most recently on Tele 5 in “OGOT – Old Guys On Tour”.

“I no longer believe in a new television career, but I would like to show what I am capable of,” he said shortly before his 76th birthday. “It’s just that, aside from Dieter Hallervorden, who enviably came out of the stupid corner, hardly any of us old comedians have this opportunity. Meanwhile, Karl Dall had also said goodbye to the tour leg, where the show had previously started. “The old man even more” will get up.

Offers for “Celebrity Big Brother” and the jungle camp rejected

He himself had received offers for “Celebrity Big Brother” and the jungle TV camp, “in hopes that it would pull my pants down there,” Dall said a few years ago. “But even if they offered me a lot of money for it, I’d rather clean the bathrooms. Last but not least, my wife threatened to leave me if I ever participated in something like this. ” The couple married in 1971 and had their daughter Janina, who caused a stir as a stuntman.

In show business he misses bulky guys, Dall said before his stage debut as “Grandpa” (2012), prefers them to “these adapted and always slimy people who just want to make a good impression.”

“I am proud of how lucky I was to be able to assert myself in this industry,” said the comedian, who was honored with the German Comedy Award for his life’s work. “I am less proud of my failed high school diplomas, I am not a role model at that. But you can’t have everything. ” And even if he stopped touring in 2017 after 50 years, he didn’t want to retire, he wrote on his home page. “Goodbye? No, there is no end in sight!”